Between 1998 and 2004 a team of research workers from the Société HADES and the University of Toulouse II -Le Mirail undertook a project to define and interpret the built landscape and the history of power structures from the eleventh century up until the end of the eighteenth century in a small vil...

This study proposes to shed new light on the evolution of settlement in the former territory of Clermont during the late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, by looking at the fortifications and first Christian places of worship, which are believed to polarize the medieval settlement. The main purpose o...

Through the examples of Lagrasse, Alet-les-Bains and Caunes-Minervois, this thesis intends to determine the mechanisms and the stakeholders’ role in the development of monastic towns in the Aude department from the 8th century to the mid-16th century. The modes of settlement on these sites are exami...

The defence process in the late Middle Ages raises the question of evolution of communities inhabitanting in Toulouse area. Understanding the defensive dynamics requires a multidisciplinary approach based on the analysis of written, planimetric, iconographic and archaeological sources. The documenta...

Between the Thirteenth and the Sixteenth Century, the apparition of public brothels -whose function was to regulate venal sex- transformed deeply the landscape of prostitution in the Midi toulousain. The institutionalization of prostitution was contemporary with a period of urban development and wit...

From its source to the Mediterranean Sea, the Vidourle valley, 95 km long, meets the various landscapes of the low-Languedoc géo-system. Through its journey, the river runs across the Cévennes (a small chain of mountains), the karstik hills, the garrigue and the camargue. This very rich natural envi...

Through the prism of multidisciplinarity, the dichotomy between environment and human impacts is reduced as strong interrelationships in thresholds have been demonstrated. The valleys are favored supports of human-environnement relations, and many rivers have been the subject of this type of study i...